Cat and Mouse

Girls Together magazine agony-aunt ‘Mrs Friendly-wise’, aka Katinka Jones, finds herself at a loose end in Swansea, and decides to pay a surprise visit to one of the magazine’s regular correspondents, ‘Amista’. But reaching the address – a strange house perched atop a mountain which matches all of the descriptions in the letters – nobody has even heard of ‘Amista’. As Katinka begins to fall for the dashing master of the house, Carleon, more weird mysteries emerge and the plucky Detective Inspector Chucky joins the search for the truth in this self-consciously lurid mystery-melodrama; a rollicking cavalcade of Brand’s signature twists and turns.

'From time to time there is published a mystery story which is also a piece of good writing. Such a novel is Cat and Mouse...a mystery novel for the connoisseur.' – Glasgow Herald, 1950

'This department has never before admitted its inability to put a book down. But I had trouble with Cat and Mouse...A fine melodrama, with a cheerful disregard for the sterile rules of the detective game.' – News Chronicle, 1950